Is carrot-root green poisonous like potato green?

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  1. Annemieke

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    When part of a carrot is exposed to the light, it becomes green. If that happens to a potato, you have to cut off the green bit, for it is poisonous. Is the green bit of a carrot (I don't mean the leaves, but part of the root itself) poisonous as well?
    It's impossible to find an answer to that on the internet, as 'carrot green' is always understood as the leaves.
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    Not as far as I know, the green on potatoes is just chlorophyl, but its the tuber's reaction to sunlight that causes the production of the poison solanine throughout the whole tuber, so its no good just cutting the green bit off a potato.

    No such process that i'm aware of in Carrots :)
     
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    Thanks potash, good to know. It happens particularly often with the yellow variety we grow. I don't like those much, but hubby will eat anything, so ....
     
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      I read that to stop the greening you need to earth them up similar to potatoes so that Sun can't get to the carrot shoulders. Not tried it myself.
       
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      Yes I imagine you're right. xA
       
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